Education Elements

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

I’ve been a teacher, a policy researcher, and an EdTech leader, and my purpose guiding me through each of those roles was to create equitable experiences and opportunities for all learners.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2016

After an inspirational tour of personalized learning hotspots in Music City, your friends at Education Elements have put together the ultimate PL day-trip. Put on your cowboy boots, it's about to get personalized in Nashville, TN.

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APRIL 26, 2018

Follow education technology-reform projects, and you’ll find mixed academic outcomes and expensive consultants. Now, some educators—and consultants—are calling for edtech consulting firms to be held accountable for whether or not their million-dollar advice translates into improved, measurable learning outcomes. Probably not.

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MAY 13, 2015

Last week, 225 personalized learning leaders descended on Silicon Valley for the Education Elements PL Summit, which included visits to schools and businesses, and dynamic discussions about personalized learning at the San Jose TECH museum.

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MAY 27, 2015

This is also the time of year when we at Education Elements focus on our blooming partner catalog - on building relationships with new partners, and cultivating and growing our relationships with old ones. It's spring and flowers aren't the only things blooming.

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MAY 6, 2015

As a Senior Consultant at Education Elements I have the pleasure of visiting more than 100 schools and districts each year some are just starting to think about innovation and others have completely re-imagined the thing we call school.

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JANUARY 27, 2016

The Education Elements team has the great privilege of working with districts across the country to plan, design, and implement personalized learning. Without fail, one of the first questions district leadership teams ask us is, “What have other districts done that we should avoid?”.

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Education Elements

DECEMBER 15, 2015

No gymnasiums, no cafeterias and no administrators. That’s school policy at AltSchools , a chain of private, for-profit schools backed by the likes of Andreessen Horowitz and Mark Zuckerberg. At the location I visited, the school schedule was written on a white board and could be changed in real time.

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Education Elements

MAY 17, 2018

Innovation often requires leading, not following, in technology advancement. I was involved in two important decisions in 2007 while serving as the Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction at Maine Township High School District 20 in Illinois.

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Education Elements

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

I have hired consulting firms and edtech vendors as a superintendent, and as a consultant, I have partnered with schools to employ a technology platform for growth and reflection. As a former superintendent and now consultant for a small startup tech company, I have experienced both sides of hiring a third party vendor.

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Education Elements

JANUARY 9, 2024

Imagine a new educational paradigm: virtual tutors provide real-time assistance, ensuring no students are left behind. Interactive simulations and virtual reality experiences engage learners in immersive educational adventures, making lessons come alive.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2018

Based on meetings with the Blended Learning Team, I developed our Microcredential Hub , a professional development site that allows all of our teachers to gain recognition as they learn about personalized learning, edtech programs and other related skills.

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Education Elements

MARCH 2, 2016

I lost 50 lbs in one year following this diet plan, utilizing this personalized learning framework I developed. It works for diets, but it also works for learning. I didn’t know where to start with my diet. I’d never done one before. So I spent a lot of time reading everything I could about diets.

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APRIL 12, 2017

I was lying to myself and didn’t even realize it. After completing numerous 5K and 10K runs, I was considering taking my running to the next level by training for my first half marathon. I would visit the specialty running store and look longingly at the glass case of GPS smart watches. “If If I only had one, I’d run more,” I’d say to myself. “I

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Prior to launching the nonprofit organization, both co-founders worked together at Education Elements , consulting with districts around designing and implementing blended learning models. Moving forward, ASCEND is interested in finding a different edtech tool to help students and teachers manage goals and progress tracking.

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Education Elements

APRIL 13, 2016

It’s your goal to make your virtual school program successful. My goal is to help you identify the key factors that can make or break the success of that program.

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Education Elements

JUNE 3, 2015

Students in Wendy Daniels 4th grade blended classroom in Evanston, WY join a virtual pen pal session with 5th grade blended students in Middletown, NY. Guest Blog Post by Wendy Daniels, 4th Grade Teacher at North Evanston Elementary School in Evanston, Wyoming.

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JUNE 10, 2015

Data-driven decision making is a foundation of personalized learning. From the grouping of students, to strategic assignment of content, to keeping track of each student’s personalized learning paths, data is essential for making every decision along the way.

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

School and district leaders have to figure out how to measure student outcomes under a personalized learning model, find the right tools for their students in a confusing edtech market, and train and support teachers.

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Education Elements

MARCH 22, 2017

The biggest frustration I hear from teachers who are implementing competency-based education (CBE, also known as mastery-based education or learning) is that students' motivation drops considerably when they realize they can retake tests until they get a passing score.

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Education Elements

MARCH 8, 2017

There are many project management tools such as Trello and Basecamp that are already out there, and they’re great. However, we found that there was still something missing and that none of the existing solutions really met the needs of our school districts.

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MARCH 15, 2017

As a startup, we have a small team and limited resources to work on problems where the solution is not obvious and success is not guaranteed. When working on Touchpoint , our new project management tool which complements our consulting services, every feature we build and every test we run is a precious use of our limited time and resources.

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Education Elements

MARCH 29, 2017

Over the past several years, our organizations have been deeply involved in the national movement towards blended and personalized learning, both as implementation experts and catalysts for innovation.

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Education Elements

JULY 27, 2016

In the year 1762, a Genevan philosopher named Jean-Jacques Rousseau presented the world with his vision of education. Despite being burned, banned, and ridiculed, this vision – a book Rousseau titled Emile, or On Education, went on to become a pillar of today’s modern philosophies on teaching and learning.

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Education Elements

MARCH 23, 2016

Many educators know Clayton Christensen for his work on Disrupting Class. Fewer may know his philosophical work, How Will You Measure Your Life ? I first encountered his ideas in an essay published in The Harvard Business Review in 2010.

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Education Elements

MARCH 16, 2016

Last year I was among the many educators that read a teacher’s account of what it was like to be a student for a day and felt despair rather than hope, and I’m pretty sure by 3rd period despair was high on the emotion list of that teacher and all of her “classmates” as well. This is not the blog post I intended to write.

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MARCH 16, 2016

We are pleased to announce that applications are now open for the third class of Lexington Education Leadership Award (LELA) Fellows. Applications are online here and will remain open through April 10 th.

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MARCH 2, 2016

The success of your virtual school may very well depend on how you implement technology and how well you engage your community. Technology is a critical part of your virtual school’s success. Depending on your school model, your virtual school may be entirely run online.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

I often hear frustration from students that “Math just isn’t for me!” This exclamation is even more troublesome when it comes from middle school girls, because young girls start off strong in math and science but lose interest and confidence as they get older. The Nation’s Report Card revealed in October 2015 that overall U.S.

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Education Elements

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

My first year of teaching I was in a room with around 20 computers and 40 students. While this may give away my age, this was in 1999, when computers in classrooms weren’t as much of a “thing” as they are today.

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Education Elements

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

In our first post of this series, we reviewed the first three risks for districts that move to personalized learning: Risk #1: Lack of Clear Vision, Narrative, and Rationale. Risk #2: Curricular and Instructional Misalignment. Risk #3: Failure to Build Capacity at District and School Level.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Join us for an hour of Personalized Learning Tweetchat #PLChat moderated by Anthony Kim @anthonx. Shifting to personalized learning doesn’t happen overnight. Transforming your district into a personalized learning environment is a big change for students, teachers, and administrators.

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Education Elements

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Everyone loves a checklist, but for a virtual school leader, there aren’t many to be found. So here is a short one: Know (and empathize with) who you are serving. Identify your critical team members. Develop your instructional model and school processes. Calculate your costs.

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Education Elements

JANUARY 20, 2016

In some ways, creating a successful personalized learning classroom is similar to winning a basketball game. To give us direction, my high school basketball coach consistently focused on three key areas, which he called the Big Three:

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Education Elements

JANUARY 6, 2016

My predictions over the last few years have come true. It has been demonstrated that any classroom can implement blended learning and, when done well, get superior results. Personalized learning is now part of an increasing number of district and school strategic plans.

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Education Elements

JANUARY 6, 2016

Running a virtual school is hard. I like new beginnings. They bring hope and excitement for the future, the good things that are yet to come. Great beginnings start with a vision for what can better in the future, and by looking back at the past.

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Education Elements

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Personalized learning received some hot press in the last month. First, in an open letter to their newborn daughter, Max, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan shared their hopes for personalized learning.

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